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Murphy's Three Rules for Longevity

Firefighters Looking at the statistics for 2009 Firefighter Fatalities there are three main causes of firefighter deaths – CARDIAC ARREST,…

Started by John K. Murphy

0 Feb 25, 2010

More Fire Stopping--Puddy/Caulking

Penetrations through a rated floor. This is a good example of penetrations in a rated floor assembly.  This looks like data cable and ther…

Started by Jason Hoevelmann

0 Feb 25, 2010

Making Sure Beams Will Fail

Making beams easier to fail. Look for this in commercial and residential structures.  The way that this beam is pocketed will allow it to…

Started by Jason Hoevelmann

1 Feb 21, 2010

sound effects for training

I am looking for some type of sound effects to be used in advanced scba drills. the sounds that i would like to find include: fire, smoke d…

Started by charles woods

6 Feb 21, 2010
Reply by Chip Killian

Dangerous Situation

Check out the link to this video of a backdraft that injured one firefighter.   I don’t know that there is a lot that could have been done…

Started by Jason Hoevelmann

7 Feb 21, 2010
Reply by Ron Becknell

Fitness and wellness

I would like to know what departments are doing to promote health and fitness among firefighters? Post respones in the fitness, wellness a…

Started by Michael Urban

3 Feb 19, 2010
Reply by Jason Franklin

CAFS & Live Fire

Our department is about to receive it's first CAFS engine. We are going to burn a when the truck arrives to get use to the truck ( we are g…

Started by Todd McKee

6 Feb 17, 2010
Reply by D*** st george

Officer Development

As I travel to the national fire academy, FDIC, and other popular training venues and talk to other training officers, I quickly found out…

Started by Todd Sweeney

11 Feb 15, 2010
Reply by Bob Carpenter

Investigating CO Calls

Make sure to check the gas-powered equipment on CO calls. This time of year we get large number of CO calls.  We arrive and take a look at…

Started by Jason Hoevelmann

1 Feb 14, 2010
Reply by Larry Lasich

Wind Driven Fires Part 1

Check out the video above and pay real close attention to the fire behavior. These tests were conducted as a result of some LODD…

Started by Jason Hoevelmann

1 Feb 14, 2010

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